'How the West Was Won: The Complete First Season'

James Arness had just completed a two-decade run as Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" when he jumped back into television Westerns in this late-1970s ABC series loosely inspired by the same-named 1962 movie.

He plays Zeb Macahan, patriarch of a family of Western settlers facing all the perils of that then-untamed territory. Also notable in the cast are Eva Marie Saint, Richard Kiley, Bruce Boxleitner and Fionnula Flanagan. *** (Not rated: AS, V)